byxen

adjective, , , 2 occ.

Type: plant-related

Last Update: 22.04.2011 05:58

Old-English: bixen,

Latin (Machine generated): BUXEUS, PIXIS,

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Reference Last Update: 21.11.2022 19:41

Meanings Last Update: 06.07.2009 15:42

  • A: plant-related
    -, boxwood, made of ~, Buchsbaumholz, aus ~
  • B: plant-related
    -, boxwood, pale as ~, Buchsbaumholz, gelb wie ~
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Comment Last Update: 22.04.2011 05:56

  • Comment on (B): -, boxwood, pale as ~, Buchsbaumholz, gelb wie ~

    In the Aldhelm context (Ald. 1.1013f.)[1] referred to by Stryker (cf. ClSt, B 118) L BUXUS means 'pale as boxwood' as it is an attribute to PALLOR (pallor, Blässe). Cf. Klotz (1879, s.v.) BUXEUS (PALLOR) und cf. OED, s.v. box (1), 2: "Pale as box sche was" (Chaucer). The phrase sio bixene indicates that the source of ClSt had a gloss to PALLOR; within a similar context[2] in ClSt, P 66 (WW 4465,32) PALLOR is glossed with blæco.

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Occurrences Last Update: 30.04.2009 09:35

  • AntK, 86,8 PIXIS[3] bixenbox[4]
  • ClSt, B 118 BUXEUS sio bixne
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Research Literature

AntK: Kindschi, Lowell. The Latin-Old English Glossaries in Planton-Moretus Manuscript 43 and British Museum Manuscript Additional 32,246. Unpubl. diss. Stanford University: 1955.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
ClSt: Stryker, William Garlington. The Latin-Old English Glossary in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Unpubl. diss. Stanford Univ.: 1952.
DOE: Cameron, Angus, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette di Paolo Healey, et al. (eds.). Dictionary of Old English (A to G). CD-Rom. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for the Dictionary of Old English Project, 2008.
WW, Prosp, Br: Wright, Thomas. Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies. 2nd ed. by Richard Paul Wülcker. Reprint of the 1884 ed. published by Trübner, London. Vol. 1: Vocabularies. Vol. 2: Indices. New York: Gordon, 1976.
Lendinara, Patrizia. "The Glossaries in London, BL, Cotton Cleopatra A. iii." In: _Mittelalterliche volkssprachige Glossen: Internationale Fachkonferenz des Zentrums für Mittelalterstudien der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg 2. bis 4. August 1999._ Ed. Rolf Bergmann, Elvira Glaser, and Claudine Moulin-Fankhänel. Heidelberg: Winter, 2001. 189-215.
MS Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 47.
MS London, British Library, Add. 32246.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A.iii.
Rusche, Philip Guthrie. The Cleopatra Glossaries. Diss. Yale Univ. Yale University, 1996.
Voss, Manfred. "Strykers Edition des alphabetischen Cleopatraglossars: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 13:2 (1988): 123-138.
[1]:

BUXEUS O QUANTOS OBTEXIT PALLOR INERTES / SEU CERTE QUOSDAM RUBRAE CONFUSIO FRONTIS.

[2]:

FRONTIS PALLOR (Ald. 273,18).

[3]:

Cf. Klotz, s.v.: PYXIS "Büchse", in fact made of box-wood, later of other materials (cf. Georges, 2007, s.v.).

[4]:

WW bixen box.